2 Samuel 10:3

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Then Achish called David, and said to him, “As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don’t favor you.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land.”

Send one of you, and let him get your brother, and you shall be bound, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you, or else by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies.”

You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

He said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land!”

By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go out from here, unless your youngest brother comes here.

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

and what the land is, whether it is fertile or poor, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be courageous, and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that the congregation of Yahweh may not be as sheep which have no shepherd.”

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.

until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”

Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”

They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

You know Abner the son of Ner. He came to deceive you, and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.”

When Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more.

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will escape or be left to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there; for no one will return except those who will escape.’ ”

But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?

For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?

Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, “Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.